Two days of real knowledge, amazing community, real impact. Engineering the future at the Science and Technology Park Niš.
Game of Codes is where the IT community comes together. No fluff. No generic talks. Just real stories, real experience, and experts who are building things every day.
From developers and architects to product leaders and founders this is the place where knowledge meets reality.
No theoretical noise. Our speakers are CTOs, leads, and senior engineers currently in the trenches of production.
Sessions focused on real problems, real solutions, and insights you can apply on Monday morning.
Meet developers, architects, founders, and engineering leaders you’d actually grab a beer with.
Java Champion & performance expert
Vlad Mihalcea is a Java Champion, creator of Hypersistence Optimizer and the Hypersistence Utils open-source project. He is passionate about performance tuning, technical leadership, system architecture, and database systems. He wrote hundreds of articles about Java, JPA, Hibernate and SQL on his blog, and he is the author of the High-Performance Java Persistence book and video course series.
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Staff Frontend Engineer
Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, monetization systems, and resilient web architecture. He has led teams in early-stage startups and scaling companies, built career ladders from scratch, and shipped systems used by millions. His work spans from greenfield builds to product engineering across Fintech, SaaS, Fitness, and Connected TV, with companies like Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, and Navro. Faris is also an award-winning community builder, co-founder of ZurichJS and ZurichJS Conf, a contributor to tools like Raycast, and someone who spends far too much time contemplating life's great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.
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CISO, Blue dot & Sourcico
Božidar Spirovski has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity. He believes that cybersecurity is not just about technology but is integral to every aspect of an organization. By working closely with teams, Božidar aims to integrate cybersecurity features as a standard practice in product development. He also stresses the importance of leadership in fostering individual growth and providing consistent support. Božidar has held significant roles in various companies. He is the Chief Information Security Officer at Blue dot and Sourcico, with previous tenure in SaaS startups as well as large enterprises in the banking, telco and energy sectors. At EVN, H4 and Blue dot he played a pivotal role in setting up the InfoSec organizations and achieving approval by security teams of the largest companies in the world as customers. He also founded BeyondMachines.net, creating a cybersecurity threat awareness platform and mentoring engineering students.
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Head of Development, Sourcico
Wekoslav Stefanovski has more than two decades of professional developer experience using a variety of development technologies. He has been using C# since the first public beta, and has a long and fruitful love relationship with it. He has been using JavaScript since the previous millennium and has a long and fruitful love/hate relationship with it. Currently, he works at Sourcico as Head of Development. He is passionate about functional programming, static code analysis, compiler design and code quality metrics.
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Staff Data Engineer
Radovan Baćović is a Staff Data Engineer who lives, enjoys, and codes in Novi Sad, Serbia. He is part of the Data giants ambassador program: Snowflake Squad member and dbt spotlight member. An experienced data engineer and "wanna-be" the best bad conference speaker, he is always eager to discover new data technologies in a rapidly changing environment. He has a profound application development background in large international companies around the globe, and he strongly advocates for the open-source community and the open-core approach. Undoubtedly, he is a fervent data geek who is delighted to share his extensive experience with a broader audience. He was trapped in the Data world for 20 years. Passionate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner.
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Founder, Adopt Intelligence
Dr. Miodrag Cekikj, founder of Adopt Intelligence, is a Microsoft MVP for Azure AI Foundry. With a PhD in Applied AI and a background in software engineering, he has served as a tech lead and solution architect, specializing in the Microsoft ecosystem. His work focuses on adopting intelligence into AI-first products and integrating AI into enterprise solutions. Miodrag is deeply involved in Applied AI and cloud-native trends, including the architecting of AI systems based on traditional machine learning and statistical modeling paradigms, as well as with large language models (LLMs) and large multimodal models (LMMs) within the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI and Agentic-driven flows. He is a passionate advocate for innovation, actively supporting global tech communities and educational centers, and always eager to drive progress in the tech landscape.
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Internationally recognized speaker, author & performance expert
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